Use of "aus" in a sentence
Hi, I was doing one of the stories and came across this sentence...
"Monika ruft ihre beste Freundin Johanna von ihrem neuen Büro aus an."
what is the meaning of "aus" here?
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521
It's a kind of prepositional expression that "encapsulates" the actual position. With only one half of it, the sentence doesn't make sense. See also https://www.dict.cc/?s=von+aus
- 521
I'm sorry, there is not much more of an explanation. The single words mean something like "of"/"from" and "out", but together they form a fixed expression that has exactly this meaning of coming from, starting from, originating from, seen from.
Sometimes German does these funny things, when some part of a sentence is split and put around another one, like the separable verbs do (anschalten -> Ich schalte das Licht an), or the compound predicates (essen (Inf.) - habe gegessen (Perfekt) - Ich habe heute Mittag ein Schnitzel gegessen).
"Von ... aus" works the same way: "Von meinem Standpunkt aus ist es nicht schwer". (From my point of view it's not difficult).
- 38
It explains that the call comes from the office. It has the same meaning like in the sentence: "Ich komme aus Frankreich." It explains a direction. I would translate "aus" with "from"
